A brand spankin' new curated news app from The New York Times called "NYT Now" is coming to Apple's iPhone next week. Launching April 2nd for $8 per month, the app in question is the venerable publishing giant's latest attempt to monetize its content within the iOS ecosystem, a platform from which a large segment of the U.S. population now procures its daily news.

An iPhone-only application, this subscription-based product is ultimately more than just a miniature, scaled-down version of the newspaper's daily output. We're told that the Times is "reassigning

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